The Virgin Mary

[bcuster]

Why isn't heaven a republic? Are we not all equal in the sight of god?

We are.

 

[PTK]

We are.

Then why is heaven not a republic?

 

[two sheds]

god's only got one right hand to sit on

 

[bcuster]

Then why is heaven not a republic?

I think you're being silly

 

[JimW]

Hebburn's not big enough to be a viable republic, think it comes under South Tyne Council.

 

[Richard46]

Then why is heaven not a republic?

Because God unlike politicians requires worship not just votes,,,,
Actually hang on come to think of it,,,,

 

[PTK]

I think you're being silly

I think you are being silly claiming that Mary is the Queen of Heaven, for which there is no evidence.

 

[bcuster]

I think you are being silly claiming that Mary is the Queen of Heaven, for which there is no evidence.

What evidence is there that love exists?

 

[PTK]

What evidence is there that love exists?

I don't know.
What evidence is there for a teapot orbiting the planet Saturn?

 

[kabbes]

What evidence is there that love exists?

Love is a socially constructed way that we make sense of circumstances that happen to us. It isn’t ’out there’ as a tangible ‘thing’ in the universe. It only exists as something that we made up. If that’s what you’re saying that God is too, then fine, I guess.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Pray for us...

Now...

 

[tim]

My mate was one of those moneychangers. He did not like that Jesus fellow, not one bit. Reckons he was some kind of Marxist. Says that turning over his table was sheer class prejudice. He came from a humble shepherding family, and worked hard to become a moneychanger. It's not like there was any suitable public building other than the Temple for the moneychangers to work in, what with the occupying Romans bagging all the best ones.

Jesus came from a proletarian background he was not one of those Kulak shepherds.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Now...

And in about an hours time. I'm going to need it.

 

[tim]

How do you know that the Jesus of mythology isn’t a composite of various charismatic sages of the time plus a load of made up stuff?

Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill as we know them are mythologised composite characters

 

[kabbes]

Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill as we know them are mythologised composite characters

This is true. For example, increasingly, people think that Churchill said things that were actually said by others.

 

[Santino]

This is true. For example, increasingly, people think that Churchill said things that were actually said by others.

"Nearly all quotes attributed to me on the internet are made up" - Winston Churchill

 

[Richard46]

Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill as we know them are mythologised composite characters

My Mother (who is still alive) met Churchill she says he was the rudest man she ever met. So maybe that bit was real.

 

[Richard46]

I don't know.
What evidence is there for a teapot orbiting the planet Saturn?

None of course which is why no one claims there is one. Shame the same procedure is not followed in other instances.

 

[Humberto]

Jesus came from a proletarian background he was not one of those Kulak shepherds.

Carpenter wasn't he.

 

[JimW]

Love was invented by Provencal jongleurs sometime in the Middle Ages wasn't it?

 

[kabbes]

Love was invented by Provencal jongleurs sometime in the Middle Ages wasn't it?

It changed everything. Hands and faces. Earth and sky.

 

[JimW]

It changed everything. Hands and faces. Earth and sky.

Have some dim recollection of a paper on the introduction of the concept of romantic love in Tibetan faming communities in fairly recent history, but so long since I read it can only recall it was a novelty.

 

[bcuster]

This portrait is quite stunning

 

[kabbes]

This portrait is quite stunning

In what way? Why is it “stunning”?

 

[bcuster]

In what way? Why is it “stunning”?

Take the chip off your shoulder, mate. You’re telegraphing your every move…

 

[PTK]

In what way? Why is it “stunning”?

It is amazing the way that Luke - or was it Paul? - captured the likeness of Mary and Jesus.

 

[bcuster]

If this is a concession, I'm happy to make it:
You never will be find further evidences than those everyone already knows: Bible, 2000 years tradition and Catholic church repository of Truth expressed in the Magisterium.
Your personal experience and faith will fill in the gaps.

 

[kabbes]

Take the chip off your shoulder, mate. You’re telegraphing your every move…

I just want to know in what way you think it is “stunning”?

 

[ElizabethofYork]

It reminds me of this 'stunning' picture which was so beloved of the masses in the 1960s

 

[Humberto]

Majestic that.